Despite having to slow its originally rapid expansion plans, China recently increased its budget for railway investment this year by 16% and expects to lay 13, 000 km of high-speed rail by January 2013 -- more than the combined rail network installed across all Western countries over the past half-century.

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The unrestricted sections of the autobahn attract people from all over the world who crave a high-speed adrenaline rush.

BBC: Roads without limits

With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.

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Romer (a Stanford professor whom Peter Drucker touts as a future Nobel Prize winner) explained that all over the world, value is migrating -- at astonishing speed -- to software.

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